Urban Trilogy - architectural plays by Alvin Yip 【城　戲三幕後】 葉長安建築作品展
extracted from http://www.artistneighbourhood.info/eng/exhib03/alvin-yip.html 2005-11-13

建築是形與式的媒合。

葉長安摒棄慣性排外單一的設計選取模式，倡議新戲具，用以探究、調和、描繪具協作可能的都市構造。2000年歐洲文化節的「湊密都市」數碼流程，2004年展於羅馬「複」系列的冰動態模型及本年伊斯坦堡 <大市集> 的城市開展遊戲，皆激發歐洲前線設計師的深入討論。

在【城　戲三幕後】展覽中，藝術家推開了啟德、中環及新界特定時空的三扇大門，讓觀眾貫穿現實與可能，融身推想臺前幕後的公共空間。

Architecture is an affair of form and formation.

Liberated from conventional bidding and an over-determination by a singular "best", Alvin's games portray and channel instrumental negotiation of urban possibilities. His notable demonstrations include the digital design agenda for EU Cultural Capital in 2000, a melting ice dynamic model at the Plurale series in Rome 2004 and recently the game of flocks for the World Architects' Congress in Istanbul. Each has provoked intensive debates among the European avant-gardes

In URBAN TRILOGY, the artist has disclosed and intertwined particular time-spaces of Kai Tak, Central and the New Territories on an imaginary backstage. Voyage between reality and the possible, participants are invited to suspect our urban cognition, conventions and materials in play.
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